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Contents:
- HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA
- GAY RIGHTS AND THE FREEDOM TO BUY
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- INDIANA GAY RIGHTS BILL IS AD: 'WE TOOK A BEATG OM ALL SIS'
- MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
- FACT CHECK: DID A GAY RIGHTS BILL BACKED BY INDIANA STATE SENATE LEAR DAVID LONG CLU RELIG EEDOM PROTECTNS?
- THE DEBATE OVER “DECENCY:” HOW HOOSIERS CHALLENGED ANA BRYANT’S ANTI-GAY RIGHTS CSA
HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA
LGBT Rights Indiana, Uned Stat: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * indiana gay rights *
Clayton County, Geia, which gay men were fired bee of their sexual orientatn, and R. Clayton County— which held that “an employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr vlat Tle VII.
Opposn of religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people? Support of homosexualy by US state? HistoryHomosexual activy Indiana?
GAY RIGHTS AND THE FREEDOM TO BUY
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Homosexual activy Indiana is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Indiana? Mike Pence approved chang by lawmakers to a ntroversial state law on relig eedom Thursday, sentially ncedg feat to a ncerted alliance of liberal tert groups and large rporatns over gay rights.
The new versn of the law clarifi that will not allow bs to discrimate agast gay Hoosiers, a fix that Republin backers and Pence had once argued was not necsary.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Indiana Republin lawmakers abandoned efforts on Tuday to strengthen protectns for lbian, gay and bi-sexual people. * indiana gay rights *
But gay rights groups pot out that the chang only stop discrimatn that might have happened as a rult of the relig eedom law.
No Indiana state law explicly bars bs om discrimatg agast gay ctomers.
INDIANA GAY RIGHTS BILL IS AD: 'WE TOOK A BEATG OM ALL SIS'
Still, the quick turnaround on the law a Republin-led red state showed a sea change on how gay rights fights play out.
” Opposn Tak Root The Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act was nceived last year by nservative Indiana lawmakers who sought a bulwark the culture war over gay rights. Lambda Legal, the natnal gay rights group, got a tip om a iendly legislator the Indiana Hoe that a bill was the works and alerted iendly groups and bs. “The bill has been brewg sce gay marriage bee legal October, ” says Jim Bent, Midwt director for Lambda Legal.
Apple’s openly gay CEO Tim Cook, whom civil rights groups had been privately urtg as a key civil rights ally, tweeted his opposn.
MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We have succsfully advoted for the right of Indiana Youth Group to prt IYG license plat, ensured that Gay Straight Allianc n be schools, protected the basic human rights of transgenr prisoners, and 2014 we proved the urts that nyg same-sex upl the right to marry was unnstutnal.
FACT CHECK: DID A GAY RIGHTS BILL BACKED BY INDIANA STATE SENATE LEAR DAVID LONG CLU RELIG EEDOM PROTECTNS?
Gay weddgs need gay weddg k. But if Christian terers n legally refe service to gay upl, on the basis that homosexualy is a s, are the victori of the LGBTQ movement jeopardy? Might Ameri be head toward Jim Crow–style discrimatn agast gay people?
“A clash of ke and fah, ” claims the New York Tim, has pted evangelil Christian nfectners agast the gay upl requirg terg servic. The NCAA has reassured that protects s gay athlet (even if won’t pay them).
THE DEBATE OVER “DECENCY:” HOW HOOSIERS CHALLENGED ANA BRYANT’S ANTI-GAY RIGHTS CSA
They n stand up for gay rights. To the gay rights movement, rporatns say: let them eat ke (gay ke is our specialty). WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.